Counterpunch, September 6, 2019 Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair The Democratic Party establishment might want to heed Santayana’s warning about how people who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it. One of the many lessons of the 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign is that your candidate better damn well possess strong quality and character if [...]
Counterpunch, AUGUST 26, 2019 I am hearing whispers from lefties that “the ruling class is finally done with Trump.” It’s “the China stuff” that’s doing the trick. Sure, the argument goes, the corporate and financial powers that be haven’t been all that happy with Trump’s open white nationalism, racism, narcissism, and sexism. It’s not their style. [...]
Counterpunch AUGUST 30, 2019 by PAUL STREET Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair You can’t make shit like this up. Well, sometimes you can make shit like this up. Three of the nine news items below are for the most part actually Fake News stories made up by yours truly, the present writer. The remaining six items are real [...]
Counterpunch, 8/23/2019 Among the suggestions I would have made to the Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley had I been an editor of his important book How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (Random House, 2018), two seem particularly relevant in the present political juncture. Inauthentic Democracy The first suggestion would have been for Stanley [...]
Truthdig, August 20, 2019 Liberals have been understandably aghast at Donald Trump’s recurrent claim that he doesn’t “have a racist bone in [his] body.” Who is the white-nationalist president trying to kid? His politics and presidency have consistently been monuments to white racial identity, animated by a promise to white voters that black and brown people [...]
Counterpunch, August 16, 2019 For revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival. – Frederick Douglass, July 4, 1852 One of the occupational and intellectual hazards of being a historian is that current events often seem far less new to oneself than they do to others. Recently a leftish liberal friend told me [...]
Counterpunch, August 9, 2019 Is there no limit to the lethal and authoritarian absurdity of America, land of mass gun massacres like Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook, Aurora, Orlando, Las Vegas, Parkland, and now El Paso and Dayton among other pockmarked sites? Here is a society that claims to be the beacon to the world of [...]
The Nuke Hurricanes story is real: https://www.axios.com/trump-nuclear-bombs-hurricanes-97231f38-2394-4120-a3fa-8c9cf0e3f51c.html?fbclid=IwAR1hxd4ENAY3Uh0LzRtsKv9lAiTKzso9rLox408mvfiA7BrrOQIwI15hO_E The Birthright Citizenship Story is Real: https://time.com/5658238/donald-trump-birthright-citizenship/ The Executive Order to Remove Muslims and Latinos from federal bench story is FAKE, made up by Paul Street The Nuke Anguila story is FAKE, made up by Paul Street but contains certain facts from real reports. The Doral 2020 G7 [...]
Counterpunch, August 6, 2019 What follows is a series of “social media” statements and exchanges (from Saturday, August 3 through the morning of Tuesday, August 6) regarding the assault-weapon mass-shootings in El Paso and Dayton. “The Correct Word: POGROM” Saturday, August 3, 2019, after news breaks of the mass-shooting in El Paso, Texas Street, 1:21 [...]
Counterpunch, August 2, 2019 I was unable to watch all the CNN Democratic presidential candidates’ debate last Tuesday night, but every time I looked in it was stuck on one of the three following themes: #1. Conservative CNN “moderators” and absurdly marginal corporate Democrat pseudo-candidates like John Hickenlooper and John Delaney attacking the mildly social-democratish [...]